What happened to Natalee Holloway: Breaking down every twist in the frustrating case – E! Online

Paul van der Sloot died suddenly of a heart attack in February 2010, leaving his son adrift. According to John Kelly, attorney for the Holloway family, a desperate Joran emailed him in March, writing, as Kelly related Date line“‘I want to be honest. My father is dead now. I have nothing to hide. I want to help Natalee’s family, but at a price, you know, a quarter of a million dollars… I’ll tell you what happened to Natalee, where she is now so you can help Beth get her home.’”

With Beth’s permission, John Kelly met Joran in Aruba and promised to start with $25,000. The young man said he knew where the body was; John asked what would happen if they didn’t pay him. Joran reportedly replied, “‘Beth can wait another five years.’” The family then turned to the FBI, who helped set up a plan to trick Joran into thinking he would be paid to catch him committing the crime. of telephony fraud. at least be something to hold him to.

John and Joran met again, and this time John transferred him a total of $25,000. In turn, Joran led John to a house near the Aruba Racquet Club, where he claimed to have stashed Natalee’s remains in what was then a freshly poured foundation before the house was built. John continued Date line that Joran claimed that he had been on the beach with Natalee, he wanted to go, she resisted, and then he “got angry and actually threw her. He made the gesture in the car, on video, and showed me how he threw anger into it, because she didn’t want to leave at that moment. And according to him, she hit the back of her head, a lot of blood, and she was dead.”

John said he was skeptical of Joran’s general story, which was that he first hid Natalee’s body on the beach with the help of his father, and they buried her the next day. But he still hoped they had shaken something loose.

“When I got on the plane on May 11 [2010]”I thought it was a foregone conclusion,” John said. And he was going to be arrested at some point. That at some point he would talk and at some point we would have a lockdown.”

But the house Joran pointed to had not been under construction in 2010, according to authorities who said they did not find his story credible enough to warrant an arrest.

John said Joran had kept in touch with him until May 25 and claimed he would turn himself in. Instead, he flew to Peru.

A federal grand jury indicted him on June 30, 2010, on charges of wire fraud and racketeering.